Love my life

Have you ever heard of that movie with Jonny Depp about Pirates? You know this one:

Well I'm going to a little country where they just happened to make it. We leave tomorrow, as in we're leaving the country tomorrow. We leave New Mexico at 7 PM at night and don't get in to the Dominican Republic until Saturday at 3PM. It's going to be a long day of traveling from airport to airport. If you are in Denver or Philidelphia and want to spend a 4 hour layover with us, we'd be delighted. We found Dylan's camera from his mission, so there will be pictures. We've missed out on documentation of pretty much the last 6 months of our lives due to camera malfuntions, but we're back in action. See you all in a week, with actual pictures of us, not just google images.

.25 of 100 years

This past week was the big 2-5 for me. Pretty crazy to think I am a quarter of a century old. I feel old, like in a good way. I'm a real adult now, no more "early 20's just trying to figure out life" excuses anymore. It's pretty great being 25 though, and I had a really good 9,125th day of life (not couting leap years).

My day started by going to work... blah. But it was immediately better when I got to my desk filled with baloons and flowers from my co-workers. Working in an office is like watching "The Office". I am the party planning committee though, so this was a nice suprise since I had nothing to do with the planning.

My mom and sister came to see me for lunch, and they brought me the most cherished meal ever:
If you're from Albuquerque, you get it. For me, this is like a hundred dollar steak dinner. And, a slice of cheese and green chile is only 7 points. (Holler out to all my WW people).

After work I came home to some lovely flowers and a husband who said we could do whatever I wanted for the night. I told the husband NOT to send me flowers and work, but not in a sneaky way, like "Oh, if I tell him not to, he will" I thought it was too unprofessional to have my desk crowded all day with treats and flowers, so I for real meant no. I also came home to these wonders:

This super cute lunch box for me to carry my "Big girl" lunch to work. I ahd another lunch box, but I left it in the fridge over the weekend, and the cleaning crew threw it out. My new one is like this one, but purple with red, orange, and yellow dots. And it came with some tupperware.

I got these in silver. I wore them to work on Casual Friday, and they were a hit.

And I came home to a picture of this on my laptop because I get to pick out whichever one I want. I haven't picked the one I want yet, I am waiting for the perfect moment. I don't mess around when it comes to wrist attire.

I got to pick whatever I wanted for dinner, so naturally:

Cliche? I don't care. I love this place.

Let me tell you somthing....

I don't have any reason for the title of this blog. Our nephew Brady just always says it at the beginning of very anti-climatic sentences, so I figured, why not.

Lately, life has been life. Dylan is wrapping up a sememester of summer school. Some sorts of biology classes that he loves, so I am feeling pretty good about him becoming a Dentist/Doctor. We are still up in the air on if he will take the DAT or MCAT. We are going to wait until the end of this semester to see. Not to brag, but Dylan has a pretty great GPA and he is dang smart. So, whichever decision he makes, one day we will be rich :)

I have been working like crazy, and even got to go on my first official business trip to North Carolina. It was mainly for customer visits at Duke, Wake Forest, UNC, you know just the big guys. It's weird being an adult and having a real job. It was pretty great having my company pay for all my meals, hotel, and even room service. I was living the good life. It was tiring, and I was happy to come home at the end of the week, but it was BEAUTIFUL to be back east. One day, we may live there, maybe. But work is good, and I am loving the company I work for.

Other than that, I got released from Young Women's, and called back in to be the 2nd Counselor. So, I am in charge of all the 12-13 year olds. It's pretty crazy, takes up all kinds of time, gets stressful, but is the most rewarding thing I've ever done. I love the girls, and even though most of the older ladies in the ward still confuse me for the Young Women (it's like come on, I do NOT look like I am in high school), I know this is exactly where I am supposed to be.

We don't really have any exciting news. No babies, no new dogs, no house remodeling pics. So, I will try to take more pictures in the future (camera currently broken), and will try to post them more. Just know that we look the same, have not gotten fat, and still go out a lot (we just don't take pictures).

Sunday, the day of rest, right?

I broke the Sabbath today, not bad, but I spent money. While driving home from church, I saw the same little boy selling newspapers on the corner. I felt bad because I always drive by and don't buy one. I can't help but look him in the eye. Most people just ignore him or try to look away, but not me. I look straight at him, and he stares into my poor soul. I can't say no to people, well most people. So today, I caved. I took out $2 from my wallet and gave it to him. I even let him keep the change.
I was feeling pretty good about this decision. I mean, I probably made his day, right? Then when my husband got home, he talked a little more sense into me. He asked me if I knew where that kid got those papers from. I'm thinking, yeah he has some sort of deal with the Albuquerque Journal. Husband says, no. He more than likely got them from one of the newspaper machines where you put in the $1 and then are supposed to only take 1. He probably took them all.
I basically just funded a lifetime thief. Whoops.

Happy Easter

Ok, I know this is over 2 months late, but we did celebrate Easter. We started off with a little egg hunt at my parents' house, followed by some ham. Then we had another egg hunt at Dylan's parents' house, followed by some ham. Overall, holidays=double the fun and double the pant size. With 2 families so close, it's hard to not indulge on those special days. The only problem is, there are a lot more holidays just the big ones. Now we have Mother's Day, Father's Day, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Black History Month, and the list goes on. Even if I gain a pant size, nothing compares to being close to family. Happy Easter everyone... in June.

Just the 3 of us...

We have an announcement to make. After much thought, prayer, and making out, we have decided to expand our family. It just seemed like the right time for us, and the timing worked out just perfect. We just moved into a little house where we have lots of room, and things couldn't be more perfect.

I know what you are thinking... WHAT??? No, we aren't pregnant! We got a dog. We aren't ready for babies, but a puppy was a good step for us. Dylan recently asked if babies don't open their eyes for the first few weeks of life (uh, no babe, that is puppies). So, naturally with those kinds of comments, we opted for a dog.

Her name is Barkley, and she is perfect. She is 1 year old (we celebrated her first birthday on March 29). She is potty trained, doesn't chew, doesn't bark, no joke, she's an angel dog. We couldn't be more lucky. I feel like these kinds of things happen to a lot of people with their first baby/dog. You have the perfect first one, so you decide to get more (or have more if it is babies). Then, you get the devil children/dogs, but since you already have 2, you better just keep going. Hence shows like "18 kids and Counting".

Here she is in all her glory and cuteness. We are currently learning tricks at Obedience School, and she is the top of the class. I will keep you updated, graduation is around the corner.

MIA for 2 months....

Where have the Carlisles been for the last 2 months? Well Dylan is taking 18 credit hours at school this semester, so he is out of the blogging world. And me? Well I work for Corporate America now so you can count me out as well....

New Blog post coming soon... with Easter and such.

Happy Anniversary!!!

On January 17, Dylan and I celebrated our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! Time flies when you are living with your best friend. As cheesy as it sounds, marriage is the best. It has been the most fun year getting to be together all the time, driving each other crazy, and falling more in love all the time. We are still in newlywed phase, and plan to be that way for a LOOONG Time (atleast until we pop out some little Dylans, which will not be ANYTIME soon). On our Anniversary, we went to one of our favorite restaurants and splurged on some steaks, then came home and ate our 1 year old wedding cake, which was an adventure all in itself:

WE love the Carlisles

The other ones that is. Since we have been back in Albuquerque, it has been so much fun to hang out with our families, especially the little ones. We have been having Sunday dinner, watching basketball games, babysitting on occasion, and going to the zoo with these little ones:

Ketchup...or is it catsup?

Either way I need to "catch up" on life on my blog. I do have a camera, and I do take pictures. Believe it or not we have a pretty fun life. We have no kids, and it is all about us time right now. Here is a little summary of our last month in St. George :

My friend Whitney got married, and I went to another BFF's wedding alone.
I love weddings, but in the future I hope my sweet husband will not be
in the middle of finals week :(

We (I) made the cutest little gingerbread men for my work party. Dylan had
no objections tasting them to make sure they were ok to serve to people.

We went to the temple, and of course to KRAVE with our friends. (Calders are
not pictured, but they were there too!) We miss our St. G friends so much.
Now instead of hanging out with them on Friday nights, we just talk
about how much fun they were and how loserish we are now with no couple friends. (Family does not count).

We hung with Santa, and said goodbye to our fun ward that we grew to love so much.

And we said goodbye to the most fun Primary Kids ever. Don't even get me started on them... best kids ever, learned so much, definitely cried a LOT!!